Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOTTOM LINE: The cult secret is out: this comic charmer about pen paramours who meet is one of the all-time greats...
...cuddlesome delivery boy. Lee Wilkof captures the humor and pathos of a mediocrity who will endure anything to keep his job. Howard McGillin deftly sketches an oily ladies' man. As his most frequent victim, the dazzling Sally Mayes is all submission, then all self-esteem after her superbly comic ballad, A Trip to the Library...
...hard to think of a more widely appealing comic strategy than this. By banishing the issue of racial conflict, the movie remakes the world as every person of goodwill wishes it really were. And by making all the conflicts between Sarah and Hal purely cultural and therefore subject to good-humored behavioral modification, the movie implies that everything else dividing us today can be worked out with equal simplicity...
South Africans have often been tempted to laugh off the far right as characters out of a comic opera. No longer. Rather than bowing grudgingly to the inevitable, many Afrikaners have grown more desperate. The militants are threatening to employ the same revolutionary tactics once practiced by black liberation groups: civil disobedience and guerrilla warfare. In the worst-case scenario, the result could be an all-out race conflict. "If they want war, let them start war," retorted a black caller to the Citizen, a conservative Johannesburg newspaper. "We are longing...
...Synge's scrawny and unlikely hero into a tall, well-built leading man, played with wide-eyed charm by the aptly named Victor Love. This makes his tale more plausible if less of a revolutionist's lesson in what Everyman might achieve. Gerald Gutierrez's cunningly coarse staging provides comic turns for most of the cast, notably Antonio Fargas as a rumshop owner and Michele Shay as a lustful voodoo practitioner...